One day, 12-year-old Isaac Nolting was hanging out with a friend of a friend, 13-year-old Dakotah Zimmer. They began horse playing, when a friend commented that they were bickering like brothers.
Then the boys noticed something: they have the same hands, feet, and very distinctive nose. Dakotah revealed that he had a brother he never met who was adopted by a woman named Dawn.
Isaac knew that Dawn was his mom's name. He went home and asked her, "Mom, am I adopted?"
“I said, ‘What makes you think that?’ And he said, ‘Because I think I found my brother,’” Dawn told TODAY. She had never known how to tell Isaac he was adopted; she even spoke to friends and her pastor about it.
I haven't seen a story this bizarre since long-lost sisters Robin and Jordan. Isaac and Dakotah's parents had them as teenagers, and were Dawn's acquaintances.
“She just looked overwhelmed,” Dawn says. “My motherly instincts kicked in. I said, ‘You need a break.’”
Dawn was a single teen mother herself and offered to take in Isaac, who was only 9 days old. “She was relieved,” Dawn remembers. “It was like the world had been lifted.”
Soon after, the boys' biological parents both died. Isaac stayed with Dawn, but Dakotah stayed with his grandmother, who always told him about his brother.
“You can just tell they’re brothers,” Dawn says. “It’s the strongest bond that I’ve ever seen. It’s like they were never separated. For being apart for 10 years and 20 minutes away, they picked up right where they left off.”
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